The physics of wind-blown sand and dust

JF Kok, EJR Parteli, TI Michaels… - Reports on progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The transport of sand and dust by wind is a potent erosional force, creates sand dunes and
ripples, and loads the atmosphere with suspended dust aerosols. This paper presents an …

A scaling theory for the size distribution of emitted dust aerosols suggests climate models underestimate the size of the global dust cycle

JF Kok - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Mineral dust aerosols impact Earth's radiation budget through interactions with clouds,
ecosystems, and radiation, which constitutes a substantial uncertainty in understanding past …

The Swebrec© function: linking fragmentation by blasting and crushing

F Ouchterlony - Mining Technology, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
A new three-parameter fragment size distribution function has been found that links rock
fragmentation by blasting and crushing. The new Swebrec© function gives excellent fits to …

Evolution of the size and shape of 2D nanosheets during ultrasonic fragmentation

A Liscio, K Kouroupis-Agalou, XD Betriu, A Kovtun… - 2D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
dimensional (2D) nanosheets such as graphene, graphene oxide, boron nitride or transition
metal dichalcogenides can be produced on a large scale by exfoliation techniques. The …

Plato's cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation

G Domokos, DJ Jerolmack, F Kun… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Plato envisioned Earth's building blocks as cubes, a shape rarely found in nature. The solar
system is littered, however, with distorted polyhedra—shards of rock and ice produced by …

Dynamic disintegration processes accompanying transport of an earthquake-induced landslide

G Gao, MA Meguid, LE Chouinard, W Zhan - Landslides, 2021 - Springer
Aiming to understand the dynamic disintegration and transport behavior of an earthquake-
induced landslide, a dynamic discrete element method has been employed to analyze the …

Statistical models of brittle fragmentation

JA Åström - Advances in Physics, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Recent developments in statistical models for fragmentation of brittle material are reviewed.
The generic objective of these models is understanding the origin of the fragment size …

Universality of fragment shapes

G Domokos, F Kun, AA Sipos, T Szabó - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The shape of fragments generated by the breakup of solids is central to a wide variety of
problems ranging from the geomorphic evolution of boulders to the accumulation of space …

Brittle fragmentation by rapid gas separation in a Hawaiian fountain

A Namiki, MR Patrick, M Manga, BF Houghton - Nature Geoscience, 2021 - nature.com
Brittle fragmentation, generating small pyroclasts from magma, is a key process determining
eruptive style. How low-viscosity magma fragments within a rising fountain in a brittle …

Floe-size distributions in laboratory ice broken by waves

A Herman, KU Evers, N Reimer - The Cryosphere, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
This paper presents the analysis of floe-size distribution (FSD) data obtained in laboratory
experiments of ice breaking by waves. The experiments, performed at the Large Ice Model …